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...behind the blinding glitter of the new multimillionaires, the city was failing the bulk of its citizens. Even the basic rudiments of civil behavior seemed to evaporate along with the glitter of the boom times. Every day 155,000 subway riders jump the turnstiles, denying the cash-strapped mass transit system at least $65 million annually. The streets have become public rest rooms for both people and animals, even though failure to clean up after a pet dog carries fines of up to $100. What was once the bustle of a hyperkinetic city has become a demented frenzy...
...differ over politics, taxes and who puts out the best video exercise tape, Los Angeles residents seldom disagree about traffic congestion: it is horrific and steadily growing worse. Help may be on the way. This week the Blue Line, the first leg of the city's first light rapid-transit rail system for commuters, will begin running from downtown to Long Beach, 20 miles to the south, with 22 stops along the way. Fare: a flat...
...terms as mayor that followed, she was given high marks overall for having developed an envied transit system, a strong police force that reduced certain categories of crime and, later on, an elaborate anti-AIDs program. Again and again, she showed a talent for bringing warring factions together. At the time, however, she was almost constantly beset by controversy. Liberals assailed her for allowing an overblown "Manhattanization" of the downtown business district and for overemphasizing tough law enforcement. Conservatives criticized her for leaving the current administration of Art Agnos with a "shortfall" of $140 million in the 1988-89 budget...
...signed into law by the President in July, will unintentionally harm those it is designed to help. Widely viewed as the most sweeping civil rights measure in more than 25 years, the act offers the nation's 43 million disabled new employment opportunities and greater access to public accommodations, transit systems and communications networks. Until the law goes into effect, handicapped people are protected by only a patchwork of state and local laws...
Disabled-rights groups lobbied hard to defeat an amendment to the bill that would have exempted transit systems in cities of fewer than 200,000. They argued that disabled people should not be segregated in special buses or vans. But Stan Kocos, chairman of Disabled Advocates of Fond du Lac, admits that his group was torn between support for the new law and the Handi-Van. Says Kocos: "We want lifts on buses, and we want the alternative service. But we'd hate to see a taxpayer backlash...